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Hall’s TNA Bound For Glory 2010 Review
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Loading...Bound For Glory 2010
Date: October 10, 2010
Location: Ocean Center, Daytona Beach, Florida
Attendance: 3,500
Commentators: Mike Tenay, Taz
Oh dear. So this is one of the biggest shows in TNA’s history, as THEY are coming. Who is THEY? No idea, and that’s the big point. Abyss has been talking about how THEY are coming for months now and it’s going to be happening here. At the same time, Sting keeps swearing that Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff are evil and trying to take over the company. There is also a tournament final for the vacant World Title and hopefully all of the questions will be answered. Let’s get to it.
The opening video looks at most of the people on the card and says…nothing. Ok then.
Commentary runs down the card.
Tag Team Titles: Motor City Machine Guns vs. Generation Me
Generation Me (better known as the Young Bucks) is challenging. Max (Matt) takes Shelley into the corner to start and gets chopped down without much trouble. Shelley sends him into Sabin’s boots in the corner but Jeremy (Nick) trips Sabin down to put the champs in trouble. Back in and the Dream Sequence sends Max outside, setting up the double suicide dive. Sliced Bread is broken up and Shelley is crotched on top for a double DDT. The rather cocky Jeremy slaps Shelley in the face and connects with a spinning kick to the face.
A double basement dropkick gets two on Shelley but he fights out of a superplex attempt. The top rope double stomp hits Jeremy, allowing the big tag to bring in Sabin for the house cleaning. Everything breaks down and a Dominator/sliding cutter combination gets two on Max, with Jeremy making the save. Shelley misses a dive and Sabin gets caught with a slingshot X Factor.
Back in and Max gets two off a wheelbarrow faceplant but he has to slip out of an assisted Sliced Bread. Instead it’s a spinning faceplant to drop Shelley and the hanging 450 gets two, with Sabin making a save of his own. A Downward Spiral/DDT combination plants Generation Me, who are right back with a standing moonsault/springboard splash combination for two. More Bang For Your Buck is broken up and Skull & Bones to Jeremy retains the titles at 12:55.
Rating: B. You know exactly what you’re going to get from these teams and they lived up to the hype. It was a match about getting two teams out there so they could fly around and do all of their stuff, which worked well. It’s a perfect choice for an opener, with the Guns getting to retain the titles in a good match.
Madison Rayne and Tara are friends for life and Mickie James CANNOT come in here and just get the Knockouts Title.
We recap the Knockouts Title match. Angelina Love is defending and friends with Velvet Sky as the Beautiful People. They threw Madison Rayne out so Rayne brought in Tara as her bodyguard. New Knockouts boss Brook Tessmacher made it a four way with Mickie James as guest referee.
Knockouts Title: Madison Rayne vs. Tara vs. Velvet Sky vs. Angelina Love
Love is defending and Mickie James is guest referee. Tara and Rayne come out together, as do Sky and Love (James’ head nod at Sky’s wiggling entrance is funny). Rayne and Love start things off but it’s quickly off to Sky, who waistlocks and snapmares Tara down for two. It’s back to Rayne, who pulls Love out of the corner for a crash but she’s right back with a World’s Strongest Slam.
A flapjack puts Rayne down again and it’s off to Tara, with Sky coming in to chop away. One heck of a spinning headscissors drops Tara and Sky grabs an Octopus hold of all things. With that broken up, Sky snaps off a suplex and a faceplant drops Tara for two. Everything breaks down (you knew that was coming) and Rayne and Love are knocked outside. Tara rolls Sky up and grabs the tights for the title at 5:54.
Rating: C. It was fun enough while it lasted, but it didn’t last that long. You can only get so much out of having a short match with so many people involved. The match wasn’t bad while it lasted, but it felt more like a tag match than a four way. James was barely a factor here and didn’t add much other than being the new star around here.
Rayne is NOT pleased with Tara and shoves James down, earning a hard shot from James.
Eric Young has drawn a bunch of tattoos onto himself before his tag match with Orlando Jordan against Ink Inc.
Eric Young/Orlando Jordan vs. Ink Inc.
Jordan is, uh, strange, to the point where he walks to the ring with what looks like a mask made of mosquito netting. Young comes to the ring with a TNA Rule Book and…tries to take the place of the referee, even counting an early near fall on Jordan. Neal gets two (from the regular referee) off a spinning middle rope crossbody and it’s off to Moore. Young tries to tag Jordan in but winds up slingshotting him inside instead.
Some running shots in the corner have Jordan in trouble and Young gets crotched on top. Jordan is crotched next to him for some bouncing before Jordan manages a spinebuster and suggestive cover on Moore. Young isn’t happy with Jordan using the rope on a rollup and kicks it away, as he continues to be a rather unorthodox partner. Jordan wants Young to come in for a cheap shot but Young goes to stand in the Ink Inc. corner instead. Moore tags Young in so he makes the big comeback on Jordan (remember, his own partner), leaving him to get caught in a top rope G9 to give Moore the pin at 6:37.
Rating: C-. There is something fun about the idea of Young being all goofy like this and it has proven to be his best work more often than not. Unfortunately that isn’t what TNA often uses him as and it holds things down. Ink Inc. was a fine team and Jordan…yeah there’s no way around how terrible he was in TNA. Or anywhere else for that matter.
Post match Young celebrates with Ink Inc.
Jeff Hardy is ready to win the World Title with a Swanton Bomb.
X-Division Title: Douglas Williams vs. Jay Lethal
Lethal is defending after beating Williams for the title. Williams works on a wristlock to start and kicks him in the leg for a bonus. The Lethal Combination sends Williams outside but a springboard dropkick misses back inside. A cravate and some knees to the face have Lethal in trouble, followed by the chinlock. Lethal fights up and hits some dropkicks, followed by a springboard standing moonsault for two.
The Lethal Injection is countered into a German suplex in a rather smooth sequence, followed by a quick suplex to give Williams two more. The Rolling Chaos Theory (rolling German suplex) drops Lethal for another near fall so Williams takes him up top. Lethal gets caught in a super hurricanrana but reverses into a sunset flip to retain at 8:18.
Rating: B-. They were working hard while they were in there and it made for a fun match. Williams is the kind of guy who can work well with anyone and that meshed well with Lethal, who was getting better all the time around this point. Good match here, as the X-Division stars almost always manage to do well.
Lethal celebrates in the crowd…where Robbie E. and Cookie jump him for the beatdown. Robbie says that Lethal is a disgrace to New Jersey so it’s time to win the title and bling it out.
We recap Rob Van Dam vs. Abyss. Van Dam was the World Champion but got attacked by Janice (the board with nails), resulting in the title being vacated and the tournament being needed to crown a new champion. Now it’s time for Monster’s Ball for Van Dam to get some revenge.
Abyss vs. Rob Van Dam
Monster’s Ball but first, Abyss has to say that THEY are here tonight. Van Dam starts fast and hammers away with the fans certainly approving. A slingshot legdrop on the apron connects and Van Dam skateboards the chair into Abyss’ face. Van Dam throws the barbed wire board in but gets dropped by Abyss. That’s broken up and Van Dam drops him onto the wire, which doesn’t seem to do much damage.
Instead Abyss is right back up to bridge a regular table and the barbed wire table onto the barricade and then smash Van Dam in the head with a trashcan. Abyss can’t manage to put him through the table though, as Van Dam knocks Abyss onto it instead, setting up the big running flip dive. Back in and Van Daminator drops Abyss but the Van Terminator takes too long, allowing Abyss to toss a chair at Van Dam’s head. That sends him crashing down through the barbed wire board, because of course it does.
Back in and another barbed wire board is loaded up but Van Dam manages to send him into it this time. Now the Van Terminator can connect to drive the barbed wire into Abyss but the Five Star misses. Abyss (on his feet 45 seconds after a Van Terminator into a barbed wire board to his head) goes outside to grab Janice but Van Dam tosses the chair at him instead. Van Dam hits him in the ribs with Janice and the Five Star gets the pin at 13:02.
Rating: B. This was a big violent match, but what mattered here is they told a story. Ultimately this needed to be about Van Dam getting revenge, which included the big shot with Janice. It was nice to not have them go too insane with the weapons too, which made for a better match. Good job here, which is more than I was expecting.
Post match the bleeding Abyss says HERE WE COME.
We recap D’Angelo Dinero/Kevin Nash/Sting vs. Jeff Jarrett/Samoa Joe. This is about various people arguing over who is really here to do the right thing for TNA, as Sting thinks Hulk Hogan is out to destroy the company while Jarrett and Joe want to save it and are fighting on Hogan’s behalf. That’s how obsessive things were about Hogan and it’s quite a mess.
D’Angelo Dinero/Kevin Nash/Sting vs. Jeff Jarrett/Samoa Joe
Dinero and Joe start things off with Dinero hitting a running shoulder. That earns Dinero a string of snap jabs in the corner and it’s off to Sting, who goes straight for the non-legal Jarrett. Joe knocks Sting outside without much trouble but Nash is right there to cut him off. Back in and Nash fires off some knees in the corner before Dinero gets to stomp away. Joe manages to enziguri his way out of the corner…and Jarrett walks out on him. The triple teaming is on and Nash hits the Jackknife for the win at 7:44.
Rating: D. Pretty much nothing to this one, as it was more an angle than anything else. Even with the video recap, I’m not entirely sure how it all comes together, but it seems that Jarrett convinced Joe to join in on the defense of Hogan and then left because it’s a swerve. Just in case the handicap wasn’t enough for Joe to overcome you see.
Mr. Anderson apologizes for everything he’s going to do to Kurt Angle. Oh and Jeff Hardy too.
Here is Team 3D for a surprise announcement. They talk about their rather lengthy success in various companies but there is nothing left to accomplish. So as of now, they are officially retired…but they want one more match. That would be against the Motor City Machine Guns and they want the titles too. Well that could have been an email.
We recap Lethal Lockdown. EV 2.0 (ECW alumni) arrived and Fourtune doesn’t like the hardcore stuff, so it’s time for a big hardcore WarGames style match.
Fourtune, with Ric Flair, is ready to end EV 2.0 and their hardcore stuff once and for all.
EV 2.0 vs. Fourtune
EV 2.0: Raven, Rhino, Sabu, Stevie Richards, Tommy Dreamer
Fourtune: AJ Styles, James Storm, Kazarian, Matt Morgan, Robert Roode
Lethal Lockdown, so both teams will send in a wrestler for five minutes. After that, the team with the advantage (Fourtune) will send in its second man for a two minute advantage. Once all ten are in, it’s first pin or submission to win. Mick Foley and Ric Flair are here too and get in a brawl on the floor before the bell. Kazarian headlocks Richards to start but gets hammered in the corner for his efforts. A neckbreaker drops Kazarian again but he avoids a dropkick. Kazarian misses his top rope legdrop though and Fourtune (ok mainly Flair) is livid on the floor.
Richards grabs a Koji Clutch but AJ Styles comes in (less than four minutes in rather than five) to make it 2-1. A Figure Four has Richards in trouble and Kazarian pulls on the arms to make it worse. Tommy Dreamer comes in to even things up as the clock is already a total joke. Something like a Demolition Decapitator hits Kazarian but it’s a Tower Of Doom to leave everyone down.
Roode is in to hammer on Dreamer, causing Flair and Foley to get into it again. Dreamer is busted open and the beating continues until Sabu is in to even it up. Sabu actually cleans house, including camel clutches on Styles and Roode. Storm is in as well as the ring is getting way too full. Richards gets dropped and Roode/Storm pose until Raven gets to do the next comeback. Morgan is in to complete Fourtune and powerbombs Sabu against the cage.
Rhino is the last man in and the roof, complete with weapons, is lowered. Foley beats up Flair on the floor as EV uses the weapons to fight back. Morgan and Raven have quite the exchange with a trashcan lid and kendo stick before Kazarian is thrown through the door for a crash to the floor.
Richards follows him outside and they go up as everyone but Styles and Dreamer are left in the cage. Kazarian puts Richards on a table on top of the cage and climbs a ladder (NOPE) but Brian Kendrick, who was apparently just chilling on top of the cage, cuts that off and the ladder falls down. Kazarian goes through the table as Dreamer hits a middle rope Death Valley Driver onto a chair to pin Styles at 24:45.
Rating: D- Let me repeat that: in 2010, Tommy Dreamer pinned AJ Styles in the second to last match on the biggest show of the year. This ranks pretty high on the WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT scale in this company’s history but the ECW worship must continue. It doesn’t help that the match was pretty dull, as the EV guys should have been totally massacred but hung in there long enough anyway. This was one of the most ridiculous things this company ever did and that’s covering a lot of ground.
Kurt Angle says he’s winning the World Title or retiring. This one is for Hulk.
We recap the World Title match. It’s a tournament final with three entrants after Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy went to a draw. The question is which one will do the big heel turn.
TNA World Title: Kurt Angle vs. Mr. Anderson vs. Jeff Hardy
For the vacant title. Anderson gets double teamed into the corner to start before Angle is knocked outside. That doesn’t last long as Angle comes back in and hammers Anderson down in the corner before Hardy is back in. Angle German suplexes both of them at once but Hardy backdrops Angle out to the floor, with Angle’s head smashing into the barricade. Anderson and Angle brawl on the floor until Hardy dives onto both of them.
Back in and Angle chinlocks Hardy until Anderson breaks it up. Angle runs the corner to superplex Hardy down but gets caught in Anderson’s Regal Roll. Hardy is back up to take over on both of them, only to miss a Swanton as Dixie Carter is watching. Anderson Tower Of Dooms the other two for two each, only for Angle to roll a bunch of German suplexes. A double ankle lock is broken up so Angle goes up, with Anderson pulling him down in a Green Bay Plunge.
Hardy Swantons in for the save and a near fall on each. The Angle Slam gets two on Hardy and a super Angle Slam hits Anderson, with Hardy making the save. There’s the Swanton to Anderson but Angle is back with the ankle lock. That’s broken up and Angle actually hits the moonsault for two on Hardy. For some reason Hardy dives outside, leaving Angle to accidentally clothesline the referee (ah).
The Mic Check drops Angle and here is Eric Bischoff with a chair. Bischoff holds up said chair but here is Hulk Hogan (not scheduled to be here due to recent surgery) on crutches (see, because of the surgery) to say not so fast (even though Bischoff wasn’t going fast). Hogan hands Bischoff a crutch but Hardy is back in to take the other crutch from Hogan…and hit Angle. Hogan does the smirk and the Scott Hall point. A crutch to Anderson’s back sets up the Twist Of Fate to make Hardy champion at 18:43.
Rating: B. This was a good bit better than I was expecting, as it felt like it should have been a big countdown to the twist at the end (which granted, it was) but it wound up being a solid match. They kept the energy and pace going, which made for a nice main event. That didn’t mean a thing here though, as this was all about the twist at the end and that was telegraphed when Hardy dove outside. Still though, good stuff.
Jeff Jarrett and Abyss run out for the celebration. Rob Van Dam comes in to yell at Hardy and is laid out by a belt shot to end the show.
Results
Motor City Machine Guns b. Generation Me – Skull & Bones to Jeremy
Tara b. Madison Rayne, Velvet Sky and Angelina Love – Rollup with tights to Sky
Ink Inc. b. Eric Young/Orlando Jordan – Top rope G9 to Jordan
Jay Lethal b. Douglas Williams – Top rope sunset flip
Rob Van Dam b. Abyss – Five Star Frog Splash
D’Angelo Dinero/Kevin Nash/Sting b. Jeff Jarrett/Samoa Joe – Jackknife to Joe
EV 2.0 b. Fourtune – Super Dreamer Driver onto a chair to Styles
Jeff Hardy b. Mr. Anderson and Kurt Angle – Twist Of Fate to Anderson
